The lecturer refutes the arguments of the reading passage about the salvage logging. The reading passage suggests three reasons to explain why salvage logging has a good impact on both damaged forests and the economy. However, the lecturer disagrees with each of those reasons.
First, the reading passage suggests that salvage logging can help forest areas recover from the disaster by eliminating the remains of dead trees and create space for new trees to grow. However, the lecturer states that removing trees did not always have a positive impact on the condition of tree growth. The decomposing process provides soil with nutrients, which make a better condition for trees’ future growth. Therefore, cleaning up dead trees may reduce the nutrients in the soil and thus prevents the rapid growth of trees.
Second, the reading passage mentions that salvage logging can reduce the damages of insect infection because the rotting wood is a habitat for harmful insects. However, the lecturer claims that insects are not always harmful. For example, a specific beatle in Alaska cause no damage to forests. In addition, rotting woods are used by birds and other insects which contributes to the forest. Therefore, salvage logging may give a harmful influence on the forest regrowth in the long run.
Third, the reading passage claims that salvage logging is beneficial for economic growth. The industry can make use of trees that have been damaged by disasters and salvage logging provides more additional jobs for local people. However, the lecturer points out that the economic impact of salvage logging is small and does not last for the long term. In some tough situation, it is necessary to use a Helicopter or other vehicles, which is very costly to maintain. Moreover, the jobs from salvage logging are very temporary and experienced people who are not local residents tend to take that job.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, moreover, second, so, therefore, third, thus, for example, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 10.0 22.412803532 45% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1594.0 1373.03311258 116% => OK
No of words: 310.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14193548387 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19604776685 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40921747133 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.509677419355 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 491.4 419.366225166 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.5286139675 49.2860985944 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.7647058824 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2352941176 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.88235294118 7.06452816374 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.216405540208 0.272083759551 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0721772412901 0.0996497079465 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0455087564153 0.0662205650399 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136983698777 0.162205337803 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0317270495696 0.0443174109184 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 13.3589403974 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.25 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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